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The new season of CBA League starts on December 12, with 42 rounds of the regular season, and the single quarter of the discussion will be changed to 10 minutes.

2:26am, 5 August 2025Basketball

Because we have to make way for the National Games, the new season's CBA league starts relatively late. Detailed information is available in detail in terms of specific time. According to media person "Inspector Zhao of the Ball Circle", "the new season starts on December 12 and ends on June 4 of the following year at the latest. There are 42 rounds of the regular season." Compared with last season, the time has been slightly shortened and there are four rounds missing in rounds, but this should be the best arrangement that the CBA company can make, after all, the National Games cannot be avoided. In addition to revealing the start time and the latest end time of the new season, "Inspector Zhao of the Ball Circle" also revealed another news, that is, the relevant parties are discussing shortening the single-quarter time to 10 minutes. This news has sparked heated discussion among fans. Overall, there are two voices.

First of all, we need to explain that the current CBA league adopts the 12-minute approach in a single quarter is to imitate the NBA, with the purpose of training players' physical fitness. However, many fans know that this approach actually does not have much effect: the pace of the CBA league is slow, and often passes the ball outside, and the quality of the game is not high. When it comes to international competitions, the time for a single quarter is 10 minutes, and some players are still at the rhythm of a single quarter at 12 minutes, which makes our Chinese men's basketball team unable to keep up with the rhythm of European and American teams when playing international competitions. Under such circumstances, some fans believe that it is completely correct for the CBA League to change the single quarter time to 10 minutes. Only by accelerating the pace of the CBA League can the CBA League be in line with international competitions and players can better adapt to the rhythm of international competitions. This first voice is obviously to support the CBA league to shorten the time to 10 minutes.

In addition, many fans believe that the current CBA foreign aid policy is already very unfriendly to domestic players. If the game time is shortened, domestic players will have less playing time, especially some young players, who may not even have a chance to play, which will cause greater harm to domestic players. Obviously, these fans do not support shortening game time. "Inspector Zhao from the basketball circle" also said: he was a little worried about the appearance time of the young players.

There is another point, that is, the shortening of game time is a great thing for some teams with insufficient bench depth, and their performance may improve, which is easier to understand. Overall, if the CBA League's single quarter time is shortened to 10 minutes, the impact will be very large.

However, it should be noted that the CBA League is not a simple commercial league, but mainly serves national team competitions. Domestic players cannot play, which only means that these players have limited abilities. If these players want to play, they can only improve their abilities and train hard in private, which will have an incentive effect for these players. As the overall level of domestic players improves, the level of the national team will also be improved, and the performance will also improve.

It is certain that any policy change will have pros and cons, and the same is true for shortening the CBA league's single-quarter game time. But in the current CBA league, the pace of the game is slow and the competitiveness is not strong. Although shortening the time of a single quarter will reduce the chance of playing, it can make the CBA league truly align with the world competition and make the game more exciting. It should be that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. I wonder what you think?

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